“the Utah Winter Finance Conference is the best finance conference in the dataset.” –Sebastian J. Reinartz and Daniel Urban, Finance conference quality and publication success: A conference ranking, Working Paper, December 9, 2016.

We wish to thank all those who participated in this year's conference including those who submitted
their hard work, our reviewers and those who participated on the program. The videos of the
presentations and discussions can be accessed under the Webcasts menu option above.

The 2019 program has been set and can be accessed by clicking on the 2019 Program menu option above.
We received over 340 submissions to the conference this year and as always it was a very competitive set
of papers and we are excited for this year's program.

PARTNERSHIP UWFC, RAPS and RCFS:

The Utah Winter Finance Conference and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate
Finance Studies announce a combined submission process. At your choice, your paper submitted to the
UWFC also will be considered for publication by the RAPS or the RCFS without additional submission fee.
This is a "no-fault" submission option, which means that if one of the SFS journals decides to review
your paper and rejects it, you may submit to any SFS journal at a later date as if the paper was never
submitted. Please see our website for the rules for submitting your paper to the RAPS or RCFS.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION:
Paper must be submitted by September 4, 2018. There is a submission fee of $40.

Authors will be notified of paper selection in November.

CONFERENCE VIDEOTAPING:
We will video the presentations and discussions of the 2019 UWFC (and place the videos on our
website for future viewing) as was done in past years. In the past years, our website experienced over
10,000 annual visits by 2,500+ unique visitors from 94 different countries (top 10 countries:US, Israel, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, Germany, China, Italy, Australia, and India).

BEST PAPER AWARD:

There is a $1,000 best paper award. The best paper is selected by a vote of the participants at the end of
the last session.

The Utah Winter Finance Conference gratefully acknowledges the financial support of The Sam and Diane Stewart Family Foundation

We also want to thank our many reviewers for their work in making this conference successful. Here are the people who donated their time and talents to the review process for this last year: